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Re: Re: Question about Vacuum Tubes.

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From: Daniel Romanchik
Date: Fri, 11 Jan 1991 01:10
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In article <17660136@hpfcdj.HP.COM> myers@hpfcdj.HP.COM (Bob Myers) writes:
>>Tubes act like FETs, with cathode=source, control grid=gate, and
>>plate (anode) = drain. That means that with a triode tube, you have
>>those three pins, plus two pins for the heater.
>
>Oh, God, am I starting to feel old.  Anybody else remember the books/magazine
>articles which began, "FETs are like tubes, with the source = cathode...."

  8-).  I had the same reaction, and I'm only 35.

Dan KB6NU
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Subject: Re: Re: Question about Vacuum Tubes.
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